Kornelia Johansson

I am a Ph.D student in environmental communication, working in the project Shadow forests – Re-thinking dominant forest cultures in times of emergency, exploring socio-cultural factors affecting the transformation of the Swedish forest industry. In particular my research focuses on the role of the journalist - how forest journalists in their profession has the opportunity to both challenge and reproduce established socio-cultural structures in the forestry industry and to influence public opinion. 

I have a master's degree in rural development and natural resource management from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. In my master's thesis Stories from the forest: an analysis of the discursive framing of forest-based bioeconomy from the perspective of Forest Owners Associations and private forest owners in Sweden, I investigated how private forest owners and forest owner associations perceive and relate to the concept of forest bioeconomy.

I have also worked as a research assistant in the project Governance, Justice and Transition - On the way to a fossil-free society, where I, among other things, studied the fund on the EU's Just Transition Fund (JTF) and how the fund influences the industrial transition taking place in Sweden.